Trump Lawfare

Lawfare Assassin Judge Juan Merchan is blinking once again, following up his original delay of the Trump sentencing until after the inauguration with a new order that delays the sentencing indefinitely while Trump appeals the conviction.

This appears to many legal experts to be the definition of a punt, with a hope that the bad ruling will be vacated, and all eyes will stop looking at the criminality of the case, criminality committed by the Judge and the Prosecutor.

Judge allows Trump to seek dismissal of hush-money case and delays sentence indefinitely – live | Trump administration– www.theguardian.com
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Donald Trump has been granted permission by a New York judge on Friday to seek dismissal of his hush money criminal case.

The permission follows his presidential victory on November 5 and multiple sentencing delays surrounding the case of which he was found guilty earlier this year.

With New York judge Juan Merchan indefinitely postponing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case, attorneys on both sides are debating over its future.

Victoria Bekiempis reports for the Guardian:

Trump’s lawyers on Tuesday asked Merchan to throw out the case, contending that dismissal was necessary “in order to facilitate the orderly transition of executive power”.

Todd Blanche, Trump’s lead attorney and choice for deputy US attorney general, and Emil Bove, the president-elect’s pick for principal associate deputy attorney general, complained that Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s team “appears to not yet be ready to dismiss this politically motivated and fatally flawed case, which is what is mandated by the law and will happen as justice takes its course”…

Prosecutors disagreed that Trump’s case should be dismissed simply because appeals wouldn’t be decided before his inauguration. While they respected the presidency and understood the logistical issues, “no current law establishes that a president’s temporary immunity from prosecution requires dismissal of a post-trial criminal proceeding that was initiated at a time when the defendant was not immune from criminal prosecution, and that is based on unofficial conduct from which the defendant is also not immune.”

President Donald Trump will not receive an expected ruling from NY Judge Juan Merchan on November 26 regarding the status of his felony conviction as Merchan has ruled to suspend any ruling until after Trump’s inauguration. Team Trump called the ruling a “total and definitive victory for President Trump.”

Merchan stated, “Given the need to balance competing constitutional interests, consideration must be given to various non-dismissal options that may address any concerns raised by the pendency of a post-trial criminal proceeding during the presidency, such as deferral of all remaining criminal proceedings until after the end of Defendant’s upcoming presidential term.”

BREAKING: Trump claims ‘victory’ after Manhattan DA concedes in NYC ‘hush money’ case | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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“This is a total and definitive victory for President Trump and the American People who elected him in a landslide. The Manhattan DA has conceded that this Witch Hunt cannot continue,” Trump Communications Director Steven Cheung.

On Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg told Judge Juan Merchan that sentencing in the falsified business records case against President-elect Donald Trump should be postponed. Trump’s team celebrated the move, calling it a “total and definitive victory for President Trump.”

The filing stated, “The People deeply respect the Office of the President, are mindful of the demands and obligations of the presidency, and acknowledge that Defendant’s inauguration will raise unprecedented legal questions. We also deeply respect the fundamental role of the jury in our constitutional system,” per NBC News.

A headline by NBC news that reads “DOJ and FBI officials reach out to lawyers as potential Trump revenge prosecution looms” reveals the MSM strategy to protect the DNC from facing rightful prosecution for the crimes it has committed against the American republic. The effort could lead to investigations into the MSM complex itself.

The story reveals DOJ officials who were part of the many lawfare assaults on enemies of the Democrat Party, from Trump to J6ers, are nervous and lawyering up in anticipation of facing the legal ramifications of violating Americans’ rights in service of a party over a constitution. An “anonymous source” allegedly told NBC News “everything we did was aboveboard… but this is a different time.”

DOJ and FBI officials reach out to lawyers as potential Trump revenge prosecutions loom – NBC News
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Multiple current and former senior Justice Department and FBI officials have begun reaching out to lawyers in anticipation of being criminally investigated by the Trump administration, according to three people with knowledge of their deliberations.

Following Trump’s decisive election victory, many Justice Department officials and career staffers were already nervous about the possibility that they would be targeted by Trump loyalists, particularly members of Congress. But the selection of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a firebrand Trump ally who was the subject of a recent FBI investigation, to lead the department has sharply increased the sense of alarm, the sources said.

“Everything we did was aboveboard,” said a former senior FBI official who has started contacting lawyers because he expects to be prosecuted himself. “But this is a different world.”

The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of becoming even more of a target, doesn’t believe any attempt to prosecute him will be successful. Judges and juries have the power to throw out cases or find defendants innocent if they deem prosecutions to be baseless.

It appears Jack Smith sees the writing on the wall after the American people delivered to Donald Trump a decisive election victory. A New York Times report citing Smith insiders claims the embattled illegally appointed Special Council is planning on closing his cases and retiring before Trump is sworn in on January 20, 2025.

An announcement by House Republicans that anyone involved in Trump investigations should preserve their communications hints at the possible fulfilment of a promise made by Steven Bannon, who himself faces more lawfare charges. He said, “the hunter will now become the hunted,” and this writer is inclined to agree with that assessment.

Jack Smith to resign and wind down cases against Trump before inauguration– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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Smith’s goal is not to leave any significant part of his work for others to complete and to get ahead of Trump’s promise to fire him within “two seconds” of being sworn in, according to sources close to Smith who spoke to the New York Times. Smith led two federal investigations against Trump, with one pertaining to his alleged mishandling of classified documents and the other focused on Trump’s efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election and the subsequent deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

This decision by Smith will make certain that the Department of Justice will follow through on its long-standing tradition of not investigating a sitting president for criminal acts.

It is not clear how quickly he and his team can finish his work on both cases, which makes it uncertain whether the investigations could be made public before President Joe Biden’s administration leaves office in January. Attorney General Merrick Garland has repeatedly implied he intends to release these reports to the public. Smith previously said he needed until Dec. 2 to decide exactly how to wind down both cases.

Trump BLASTS ‘degenerate lowlife’ John Kelly over Hitler allegations | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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“This guy had two qualities, which don’t work well together. He was tough and dumb.”

Former President Donald J. Trump, the GOP presidential nominee for 2024, has responded to reports published Tuesday in The Atlantic in which John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, claimed that Trump wanted generals like Hitler and declared that Nazis did “some good things.”

On Truth Social, the GOP nominee slammed John Kelly as a “lowlife,” alleging on Wednesday that he had fabricated the story. The 45th president disputed Kelly’s allegations, which included the former general declaring that Trump met “the definition of a fascist.” Trump then thanked his supporters for coming to his defense.

Testimony from a former special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, suggests the Biden-Harris White House has been not only colluding with local and state Soros-funded DAs to lawfare assault former President Donald Trump, they even groomed their future lawfare assassins and walked them through the whole process.

Wade pleaded a bad memory when confronted by the House Judiciary Committee but acknowledged the multiple times he wrote invoices for Fulton County to pay for meetings with the White House Counsel. When confronted with another example, he would say, “I don’t remember it happening. I know that it did because the entry says that it did.”

Trump Prosecutor Met with Biden-Harris White House Multiple Times, According to Newly Released Testimony– www.westernjournal.com
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A now-ousted special prosecutor against former President Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, might have been his own worst witness when it comes to President Joe Biden’s White House.

Nathan Wade, who was booted from his role overseeing the Trump prosecution because of a romantic relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, confirmed in a newly released deposition that he’d had lengthy meetings with the Biden White House while still on the Trump case.

But he claimed he can’t remember a thing about them — while he was paid $250 an hour for his time.

In the Oct. 15 grilling by the House Judiciary Committee, a transcript shows, Wade was confronted with invoices showing he had billed Fulton County taxpayers repeatedly for conferences with Biden White House counsel.

One, dated May 23, 2022, indicated a trip to Athens, Georgia — a distance of about 70 miles from Atlanta — as well as a “conf with White House counsel.”

Yet Wade claimed he could not remember who from the White House was present or even whether the “conf” took place by phone or in person.

At another point, the transcript cites an invoice for “Interview with D.C./White House, November 18th, 2022. Eight hours at $250. Cost $2,000.”

Wade again had little to add: “I don’t remember it happening. I know that it did because the entry says that it did,” he said in the deposition.

That was followed by a series of questions about who was present, what was discussed, and even whether Wade had traveled to Washington for the interview or if someone from the White House had come to him in Georgia.

Are the indictments against Trump politically motivated?

To all, Wade answered with some version of “I don’t recall.”

At still another point, Wade was asked about an invoice in which he billed Fulton taxpayers $6,000 for three days’ work from Sept. 7-9, 2022 for “Witness interview; conf call D.C.; team meeting.”

Again, Wade could not recall anything about the “conf call.”

In total, as Townhall noted, Wade used the phrases “I don’t recall,” “I can’t recall,” or “I don’t know” almost 60 times.

What is clear, however, is that Wade met with the Biden White House repeatedly while conducting a prosecution of the man the Biden White House feared as Biden’s most potent political opposition.

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The fact that Wade claims not to recall anything about those meetings has its own problems.

Wade was being paid handsomely by Fulton County taxpayers for his mental acumen. Lawyers who make $250 an hour are generally expected to have a fairly high-grade intelligence, which generally translates to a reasonably good memory.

To a reasonable American, a man in Wade’s position who claims he can’t remember such important matters as when meetings take place and who attended — when those meetings involve the White House and a crucial front in the Democratic legal war on Trump — is not being very convincing.

In fact, it gives the impression that he’s got something to hide. And that makes him about the worst witness possible.

 

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